Test Automation ROI Calculator for Success

Calculate Your Return on Investment

This ROI Calculator provides an estimated view of the potential savings associated with reducing manual testing effort and managing automation maintenance through Provar.

By evaluating testing effort, maintenance requirements, and team productivity, the calculator helps organizations understand the potential business value of test automation ROI and long-term operational efficiency.

Instructions

To calculate your return on investment, begin with the first section below. The information entered will automatically populate corresponding fields throughout the calculator.

You can move between sections to add or adjust values that best reflect your organization's testing processes, resource allocation, and automation goals.

The results are designed to help estimate potential automation cost savings, efficiency improvements, and the overall return generated from your testing investment.

How many environments/sandboxes are under the purview of testing?

Dev, QA and Production for Sales cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud etc.

How many test cases do you run with each cycle?

Count of regression test cases. One test case would be upto 10 test steps from login, main business function to logout.

How many releases do you perform in an average month?

Total count of development releases+patch releases

How much regression coverage would you like to perform with every release?

Percentage of Regression performed with every release

3

Total number of Salesforce releases in a year

Summer, Winter and Spring Platform level releases.

13

Total number of Chrome/ Chromedriver releases in a year

Cross browser testing is not added here

Saving Results

Total projected savings in the first year.

Number of manual testing hours saved in a year

Savings in manual testing

Number of manual testing hours saved in a year

Savings in dollar value for manual testing

Average 36 dollar per hour rate for a manual tester

Savings in Maintenance effort in person hours

If you are building a vanilla open source oriented test automation framework (Example: Using Selenium/Playwright etc.), then you would have to maintain approximately 40% of the tests for each realease. Provar utilizes Metadata and maintains the tests for Chromedriver/Salesforce releases (Monorail and BST).

Savings in dollar value for maintenance effort

Average 40 dollar per hour rate for an automation engineer

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